ESO Press Releases and Photos 2002

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ESO Press Photo 32/02 (23 December 2002)
Season's Greetings. More ...
 
ESO Press Photos 31a-b/02 (20 December 2002)
Which Ringed Planet...!? - VLT Obtains Unusual View of Well-Known Solar System Object. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 25/02 (18 December 2002)
New Vistas Open with MIDI at the VLT Interferometer - "First Fringes" in Mid-Infrared Spectral Region with Two Giant Telescopes With PR Photos 30a-c/02 and PR Video Clip 03/02. More ...
 

ESO Press Release 24/02 (17 December 2002)
Press Meeting 20 January 2002: First Light for Europe's Virtual Observatory. With PR Photo 29/02. More ...

 
ESO Press Release 23/02 (11 December 2002)
Deepest Infrared View of the Universe - VLT Images Progenitors of Today's Large Galaxies. With PR Photos 28a-d/02. More ...
 
ESO PR Video Clip 01/02 (7 February 2002)
"Life in the Universe" Final Event Video Now Available. Access the clip via the accompanying text. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 22/02 (29 November 2002)
How Small are Small Stars Really? - VLT Interferometer Measures the Size of Proxima Centauri and Other Nearby Stars. With PR Photos 27a-d/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 21/02 (4 November 2002)
Leading European Intergovernmental Research Organisations at FP6 Launch Conference - EIROforum at "European Research 2002" (Brussels, November 11-13, 2002). More ...
 
ESO Press Release 20/02 (31 October 2002)
Live Webcasts from CERN and ESO for European Science and Technology Week - "Sci-Tech... couldn't be without it!" and "Catch a Star!". More ...
 
ESO Press Release 19/02 (30 October 2002)
A Glimpse of the Young Milky Way - VLT UVES Observes Most Metal-Deficient Star Known With PR Photos 25a-b/02. More ...
 
ESO Comunicado de Prensa 18/02 (23 de octubre 2002)
Firma de Convenio entre el Gobierno de Chile y ESO para la Instalación de un Nuevo Centro de Observación en Chile - ALMA. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 18/02 (23 October 2002)
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Chile and ESO for Establishing a New Center for Observation in Chile - ALMA. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 17/02 (16 October 2002)
Surfing a Black Hole - Star Orbiting Massive Milky Way Centre Approaches to within 17 Light-Hours With PR Photos 23a-c/02 and PR Video Clip 02/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 16/02 (26 September 2002)
Four Eyes Are Better - VLT Interferometer Passes Another Technical Hurdle With PR Photos 22a-b/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 15/02 (23 August 2002)
Heavy Stars Thrive among Heavy Elements - VLT Observes Wolf-Rayet Stars in Virgo Cluster Galaxies With PR Photos 20a-c/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 14/02 (1 August 2002)
Disks around Failed Stars - a Question of Age: First Ground-Based Mid-Infrared Observations of Brown Dwarfs With PR Photos 17a-b/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 13/02 (8 July 2002)
GIRAFFE Reaches towards the Stars - "First Light" of New Powerful Spectrograph at the VLT With PR Photos 16a-b/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 12/02 (8 July 2002)
Heavens Open Up for UK Astronomers. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 11/02 (26 June 2002)
Young Stars in Old Galaxies - a Cosmic Hide and Seek Game: Surprise Discovery with World's Leading Telescopes. With PR Photos 15a-c/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 10/02 (15 May 2002)
Ultrabass Sounds of the Giant Star xi Hya - First Observations of Solar-type Oscillations in a Star Very Different from the Sun. With PR Photos 13a-b/02 and PR Audio Clip 01/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 09/02 (7 May 2002)
Infrared Images of an Infant Solar System - ESO Telescopes Detect a Strange-Looking Object. With PR Photos 12a-c/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 08/02 (2 May 2002)
"Catch a Star! - ESO and EAAE Launch Web-based Educational Programme for Europe's Schools. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 07/02 (9 April 2002)
Most Distant Group of Galaxies Known in the Universe - New VLT Discovery Pushes Back the Beginnings. With PR Photos 11a-b/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 06/02 (15 March 2002)
The VLT Unravels the Nature of the Fastest Binary Star - Two Hot White Dwarfs Perform a Tight Dance. With PR Photos 10a-b/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 05/02 (13 March 2002)
"Sci-Tech - Couldn't be without it !" - Launch of a Major European Outreach Programme. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 04/02 (13 March 2002)
VIMOS - a Cosmology Machine for the VLT - Successful Test Observations With Powerful New Instrument at Paranal.
With PR Photos 09a-n/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 03/02 (11 March 2002)
UVES Investigates the Environment of a Very Remote Galaxy - Surplus of Intergalactic Material May Be Young Supercluster.
With PR Photos 08a-c/02. More ...
 
SO Press Release 02/02 (7 March 2002)
German Foreign Minister Visits Paranal Observatory. More ...
 
ESO Pressemitteilung 02/02 (7 März 2002)
Der deutsche Aussenminister besucht das ESO Paranal Observatorium. With/mit PR Photos 07a-d/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Release 01/02 (28 January 2002)
Multiple Eyes for the VLT - First System of Deployable Multi-Integral Field Units Ready. With PR Photos 03a-e/02. More ...
 
ESO Press Photo 26/02 (25 November 2002)
Hot Spot Cosmic Accelerators - VLT Images Intergalactic Shock. More ...
 
ESO Press Photos 21a-c/02 (28 August 2002)
Double Planet Meets Triple Star - High-Resolution VLT Image of Pluto Event on July 20, 2002. More ...
 

ESO Press Photos 19a-c/02 (9 August 2002)
Late Afternoon at Taruntius - VLT Obtains Sharpest Ground-based Image of Lunar Landscape. More ...

 
ESO Press Photos 18a-h/02 (7 August 2002)
A Portrait of One Hundred Thousand and One Galaxies - Rich and Inspiring Experience with NGC 300 Images from the ESO Science Data Archive. More ...
 
ESO Press Photos 14a-g/02 (7 June 2002)
In Tarantula Territory - Famous Southern Nebula Imaged from La Silla. More ...
 
ESO Press Photos 06a-b/02 (26 February 2002)
ESO's VLT Helps ESA's Rosetta Spacecraft Prepare to Ride on a Cosmic Bullet - New Images of Comet Wirtanen's Nucleus. More ...
 
ESO Press Photos 05a-o/02 (7 February 2002)
Coming Home at Paranal - Unique "Residencia" Opens at the VLT Observatory. More ...
 
ESO Press Photos 04a-c/02 (31 January 2002)
Of Rings and Volcanoes - Fine Images of Saturn and Io with VLT NAOS-CONICA. More ...
 
ESO Press Photos 02a-b/02 (25 January 2002)
VLT Images the Horsehead Nebula. More ...
 
ESO Press Photo 01/02 (3 January 2002)
ESO PR Highlights in 2001 More ...